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• I think there is no world without theatre.
• The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
• You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
• Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
• Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
• Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
• Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in…
• All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek…
• Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
• But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
• Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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